Jekyll2018-02-22T08:15:03+01:00/DjangoCon Europe 2018DjangoConEurope is hosted in Heidelberg May 23-27th, 2018
CfP Deadline Extension!2018-01-28T10:00:00+01:002018-01-28T10:00:00+01:00/news/cfp-deadline-extension<p>We’re extending our CfP and opportunity grant application deadlines in support of the global diversity CfP day!</p>
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<p>On February 3rd, <a href="https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/">global diversity CfP day</a> takes place. It is a global
accumulation of workshops to help first time speakers submit proposals to all kinds of conferences and events.</p>
<p>DjangoCon Europe is firmly committed to a diverse community, so we couldn’t let this day pass just outside our original
deadline of February 1st. We’ve decided to extend our deadlines (both for the opportunity grants and the CfP) until
<strong>February 6th</strong>, 23:59 CET. We look forward to your submissions!</p>
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</div>We’re extending our CfP and opportunity grant application deadlines in support of the global diversity CfP day!Talk Selection Process2018-01-22T20:00:00+01:002018-01-22T20:00:00+01:00/news/talk-selection<p>Reviewing the talks and tutorials submitted to a conference can be a daunting task – there is much to consider, and
usually there are more great submissions than there are slots available in the conference schedule.</p>
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<p>We’d like to make our reviewing process and guidelines transparent to every submitter and attendee, both to show you
what will await you during the conference as an attendee, and to help you understand our decisions regarding your
submissions as a submitter.</p>
<h3 id="composition">Composition</h3>
<p>First off, a warning: all of the following numbers are <strong>approximate and may change</strong> – we don’t know the future, and we
may have to adjust to changed circumstances in a number of ways.</p>
<p>DjangoCon Europe has three conference days reserved for talks (followed by two days of sprints with tutorials on the
side). Past experience shows that more than 10 talks per day (plus room for lightning talks) is a bit much, so we’re
looking at about 30 talk slots we can distribute among submissions. Of these 30</p>
<ul>
<li>3 will go to keynote speakers selected by us. We’re very much open to suggestions, so contact us if there is anybody
you’d like to see or hear as a keynote speaker!</li>
<li>2 talks focusing on languages or frameworks that are not Django.</li>
<li>6 community talks. These are meant to show the struggles we face as a community, and as individuals. They can include
talks on personal growth, or demonstrate problems that are still waiting to be resolved.</li>
<li>4 project presentations. These talks show ways and areas in which Django may be used.</li>
<li>15 talks about Django and working with Django:
<ul>
<li>6 talks accessible to beginners, focussing on concepts, introductions, guides, and other material most useful to
those new to Django, having used Django for about a year or less. Includes common workflows (like debugging and
testing) and introductions to tools integrated with Django.</li>
<li>6 more advanced talks, explaining concepts or implementation details in depth, for people who have used Django for
more than a year. Includes uncommon workflows, and improvements on testing and debugging workflows.</li>
<li>3 talks at a very advanced level on implementation details and planned features. We hope to offer a bit of the
Django Under The Hood spirit here, to compensate for last year’s DUTH pause.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>If your talk idea does not match any of these categories, or matches more than one – don’t worry! This is not a strict
list that every submission needs to fit in, it is just meant as a guide for attendees, submitters, and reviewers alike.</p>
<h3 id="reviewing">Reviewing</h3>
<p>Our review team has not been assembled yet, but we’re working towards a mix of some organizers, some core developers and
DSF members, and some Django Girls members/organizers. (Again, if you think we’re missing somebody, please get in
touch!)</p>
<p>Reviewers will be asked to look at a set of submissions and submit a review (both a few words and a rough rating). After
the review period is over, we will go through the talks by category and select the talks based on accumulated reviews.
If we can’t make the decision among two or three talks, we’ll check back with the reviewers and ask them for their
opinion.</p>
<p>We’ll of course notify you regardless of the review outcome with the result. We’ll probably send out some of the
acceptance mails before the rejection mails, to give accepted speakers a chance to step back, in case they cannot attend
after all. Regardless of our decision, feel free to ping us for feedback and we’ll give you an overview over reviewer
opinions!</p>
<p>We value your feedback. If you have any concerns or suggestions on how we can improve the reviewing process, please get
in touch!</p>
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</div>Reviewing the talks and tutorials submitted to a conference can be a daunting task – there is much to consider, and usually there are more great submissions than there are slots available in the conference schedule.Speaker Mentors2018-01-05T10:00:00+01:002018-01-05T10:00:00+01:00/news/speaker-mentors<p>As our CfP goes into its second half, we’re ready to announce speaker mentors – they provide help and advice if you’re
not sure what to submit to DjangoCon Europe.</p>
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<h3 id="content">Content</h3>
<p>While DjangoCon Europe has much more to offer than just talks, the talks are still the core of the conference, around
which everything else is built. To make DjangoCon Europe talks great for every attendee, we’ll try to have some
interesting talks for everyone – and the best thing you can do to help is to submit your talk!</p>
<p>You’re not sure what you could talk about? Consider these ideas (and keep in mind that this list is far from
exhaustive):</p>
<ul>
<li>Have you recently solved a problem at work or school that required learning a new technology? Tell us what you
learned!</li>
<li>Have you launched something that went really well? Write a case study! Even better – did it go really badly? Tell us
how to avoid the mistakes you made!</li>
<li>Do you have detailed knowledge about a non-computing area (say, music, or art, or history)? Are there stories from
those communities about project management, communicating, or anything else that the Django community would benefit
from learning about?</li>
<li>Do you belong to a particular cultural, cosial, or langauge grop that causes you problems when interacting with
technology? Give us the “what everyone in tech should know about X” talk!</li>
<li>Is there something unexpected you made Django do, or an uncommon bug you ran into, hunted, reported and fixed? Or is
there another little known process within Django or the Django community you ran into? Tell us about your experiences!</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="community">Community</h3>
<p>Because we’re not just looking for any old tech talk – we’re looking for talks from, by, and about our community. No
issue relating to Django and the Django community is too big or too small to warrant a talk slot, open slots permitting.</p>
<p>Now, we know that submitting a talk can be nerve-wracking even for experienced speakers, and even more so to people who
are inexperienced. Since we want to invite everybody to feel comfortable to submit talks, we’d like to introduce our
speaker mentors – wonderful people who are experienced speakers, and who’ll be happy to offer help and advice regarding
your talks. They can help you to formulate a vague idea, or be a sounding board on the best direction you could develop
a talk that’s already half way done.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:katie@glasnt.com">Katie</a> has spoken about emoji, JavaScript, security, and being nice to people, in half a
dozen countries.</li>
<li><a href="mailto:russell@keith-magee.com">Russell</a> has spoken (rapidly) about various Python and Django projects, as well as
his personal experience in tech, and is a serial DjangoCon visitor.</li>
<li><a href="mailto:tom@tomchristie.com">Tom</a> has spoken about API design, Django REST Framework and sustainable open source
development.</li>
</ul>
<p>Don’t hesitate to contact them if you aren’t <em>quite</em> ready to submit your DjangoCon Europe talk – or, if you’d like to
be a speaker mentor yourself, <a href="mailto:2018@djangocon.eu">contact us</a>!</p>
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</div>As our CfP goes into its second half, we’re ready to announce speaker mentors – they provide help and advice if you’re not sure what to submit to DjangoCon Europe.Talks and Tickets2017-12-01T16:40:00+01:002017-12-01T16:40:00+01:00/news/talks-and-tickets<p>Lots and lots of good news – today is the start of both our ticket sale <strong>and</strong> our Call for Participation, so no matter
if you want to be a regular participant or a speaker, now’s the time to get started (while the Early Bird tickets last)!</p>
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<h3 id="tickets">Tickets</h3>
<p>Today, as our <a href="/timeline">timeline</a> so cleverly predicted, marks the start of our ticket sale – as tradition demands, we
start out with <strong>Early Bird 🐤 Tickets</strong> for a reduced price. Early Bird tickets are currently planned to be available until
end of January, so be sure to get your’s soon!</p>
<p>Buying an Early Bird 🐤 Ticket isn’t just great for you (woo reduced prices!), it also helps us estimate the
amount of attendees we will have, and to give us more time to handle any special requirements you may have.</p>
<p>You will notice that our ticket pricing allows you to input a ticket price of your choice. With the additional money, we
are able to make it a more inclusive conference by investing in accessibility improvements as well as our
<a href="/grants">opportunity grant</a> program, helping people with little resources, and/or a lack of representation in our community
to participate in DjangoCon Europe 2018. Please choose to give more if you can – you’ll have a very direct impact on how
wonderful our conference and our community will be.</p>
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<h3 id="opportunity-grants">Opportunity Grants</h3>
<p>We are very proud of our <a href="/grants">opportunity grant</a> program – this is what you may know from other or previous
conferences as the financial aid program.
If (either as an attendee or a speaker) paying acommodations and travelling expenses would be difficult for you, especially if you belong to a marginalized or underrepresented group in tech, please check it out.</p>
<p>You have until <strong>February 1st</strong> to submit your request, to give us sufficeint time to go through requests, which in turn
gives you sufficient time to plan your journey, handle visa applications, and answer all questions you may have.</p>
<p><strong>Edit: We have extended the deadline until February 6th! <a href="https://2018.djangocon.eu/news/cfp-deadline-extension/">Read more here</a>.</strong></p>
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<h3 id="talks">Talks</h3>
<p>Talks are the main attraction in a conference, especially in a single-track conference as DjangoCon Europe. We will post
a separate blog post once we are sure how many talks there will be and what our selection process will look like.
We are also currently coordinating with potential mentors for speakers, so if you are on the fence on whether to submit
a talk – stay tuned for our next blogposts!</p>
<p>We’re looking for talks and tutorials (which will take place during sprints). To get an idea what kind
of talks we are looking for, have a look at our <a href="https://2018.djangocontent.eu/hd/cfp">CfP</a>, or at the talks and
<a href="http://2013.djangocon.eu/talks/">schedules</a>
<a href="http://2012.djangocon.eu/en/schedule/">of</a>
<a href="http://2011.djangocon.eu/schedule/">the</a>
<a href="https://2016.djangocon.eu/schedule/">last</a>
<a href="https://2017.djangocon.eu/schedule/">years</a>!</p>
<p>Our CfP will be open until February 1st, giving you two months to submit amazing talks and tutorials – but since you can
edit submitted talks up until the deadline, why don’t you get started right away?</p>
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<p>We want to extend our thanks to the (Django-based!) open source projects <a href="https://pretix.eu">pretix.eu</a>
and <a href="https://pretalx.org">pretalx.org</a> for hosting our presale and our CfP.</p>Lots and lots of good news – today is the start of both our ticket sale and our Call for Participation, so no matter if you want to be a regular participant or a speaker, now’s the time to get started (while the Early Bird tickets last)!Hello world!2017-10-23T21:00:00+02:002017-10-23T21:00:00+02:00/news/welcome<p>Hi there!</p>
<p>We are happy and excited to show you our current plans for DjangoCon Europe 2018! A lot is still bound to change, and
we will put up more information over time, but we have fixed the dates and the locations, and our general timeline.</p>
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<p>We’ve collected some information on Heidelberg as well as some notes on accessibility and our code of conduct
here for you to browse. In the background, we are working out the details of the conference to be able to start
selling tickets and accept talk submissions in early December.</p>
<p>Right now, we are actively looking for <a href="/sponsoring/">sponsors</a>. If you happen to know anyone who might be interested
in sponsoring DjangoCon Europe, be sure to send them here – or tell us to contact them.
You can reach our sponsorship team for all questions at sponsors@djangocon.eu.</p>
<p>If you want to keep updated, check out our <a href="/feed.yml">RSS feed</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/DjangoConEurope">Twitter account</a>
or <a href="https://rose-conferences.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=cbdcd50b247322e1cd933e89a&amp;id=6021912195">newsletter</a>.
Please take a look around the page, and if anything is missing, tell us!</p>Hi there! We are happy and excited to show you our current plans for DjangoCon Europe 2018! A lot is still bound to change, and we will put up more information over time, but we have fixed the dates and the locations, and our general timeline.